Toolset bundles Ansible developing and testing tools in a single container.

pip install --user pip-compile-multi
docker network create molecule

This is done during the docker build but can be done here to see exactly what will be installed

pip-compile --allow-unsafe --no-annotate --output-file=requirements.txt requirements.in

make all
docker run --rm halfwalker/alpineset2 molecule --version

docker run --rm -it quay.io/halfwalker/alpineset2 bash

Specifies the docker network to use locally (created above) - needed to allow molecule container to speak to working container (ubuntu2204 here)

docker run --rm -it --network molecule -e GH_USER=${GH_USER} -e GH_TOKEN=${GH_TOKEN} -e MOLECULE_DISTRO=ubuntu2204 -e DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/docker.sock -v "$(pwd)":"${PWD}" -w "${PWD}" -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock quay.io/halfwalker/alpineset2 bash

• Set GH_USER and GH_TOKEN to your github user/token to avoid rate limiting from github. Use them in ansible tasks (optionally)

  - name: Get latest release for each git package in cloud_tools
    uri:
      url: "https://api.github.com/repos/{{ item.repo }}/releases"
      method: GET
      return_content: true
      status_code: 200
      body_format: json
      validate_certs: false
      user: "{{ lookup('env', 'GH_USER') | default(omit) }}"
      password: "{{ lookup('env', 'GH_TOKEN') | default(omit) }}"
      force_basic_auth: "{% if lookup('env', 'GH_USER') %}yes{% else %}no{% endif %}"
        :

• MOLECULE_DISTRO is a handy way to specify which geerlingguy container to use. Example molecule.yml

  dependency:
    name: galaxy
  driver:
    name: podman
  
  platforms:
    - name: "cloud_tools-${MOLECULE_DISTRO:-ubuntu2004}"
      # Default to dockerhub unless a local cache is defined
      # Default to ubuntu2004 unless a distro is defined
      image: "${HUB_CACHE:-registry.hub.docker.com}/geerlingguy/docker-${MOLECULE_DISTRO:-ubuntu2004}-ansible:latest"
      # Specify not-rootless, otherwise newer ansible fails with 'msg: could not find job'
      # See https://github.com/ansible-community/molecule-podman/issues/77
      rootless: false
        :

Can run a test manually, without molecule.

Must set MOLECULE_INVENTORY_FILE env variable first

export MOLECULE_INVENTORY_FILE=/root/.cache/molecule/$(basename ${PWD})/default/inventory/ansible_inventory.yml
pytest --ansible-inventory /root/.cache/molecule/$(basename ${PWD})/default/inventory --connection ansible  --debug -p no:cacheprovider -s molecule/default/tests/test_default.py -vvv

Generally the containers should bundle the latest stable versions of the tools below. An exact list can be seen in requirements.txt file used for building the container.

• ansible
• ansible-lint
• molecule and most of its plugins
• yamllint (used by ansible-lint)
• vault
• Packer
• docker
• podman